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Re: The Merit ThreadFrom: Golden Sun
Subject: General
Date/Time 2005-12-04 05:09:08
Remote IP: 205.188.116.201
MessageJust to be clear. I think charities are awesome and help people when possible but just trying to detuct whether it is really the path to be thinking of helping people in order to create merit or help people because it is good to help people!
I guess it is a mute point since it's obviously not a bad thing if you get some spiritual rewards for doing good deeds but mentally isn't it better to help people out of a sense of compassion and love not out of a sense of personal gain?
Or is the idea here that many people do not have a sense of service to others, love and compassion so they should just help others on faith that it is the good thing to do until it one day occurs to them they are benifitting from it and they are getting the love, rewards etc back to them and it's all good and you feel warm inside.
I am sure M Winn has his own views on this which would be interesting to here.
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